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Parents with intellectual disabilities: past, present and futures
- Editors:
- LLEWELLYN Gwynnyth, et al, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 271p.
- Place of publication:
- Chichester
This book provides an international perspective on research and practice with parents with learning disabilities and their children and extended families, written with the 2006 ‘United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ in mind. It champions inclusion and equality for adults with learning disabilities and challenges readers stereotyped attitudes about parenting among this group of people. The first part of the book, 'Family and community life' contains chapters on: becoming a mother/father, looking back on their own upbringing, family within a family, the children and their life experiences, understanding community and what it means to the lives of parents with learning disabilities, citizenship, resistance to parenting and dealing with services/professionals. Part II, 'Human services enabling and disabling parents with intellectual disabilities' covers: parenting education programs, supporting decision making with women, turning policy into practice, turning rights into realities, child protection, supporting mothers’ community participation, and advocacy for change. Contributors come from Iceland, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, and the United States.